[CR] Hot Rod your bike pump

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:22:14 -0700
From: "Bob Freitas" <freitas1@pacbell.net>
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] Hot Rod your bike pump


I have a couple floor pumps ,the oldest is a SKS reservoir pump I have had since 1980. The rubber hose gave up the ghost so I replaced it with 2 meters of Volkswagon 5mm fuel line which will last forever. I also have a SILCA pump which came from American Cyclery in SF (bet they still have some) I have had good luck with it and find the hose to be long enough. I use modern pumps at the bike gym and dont like the thumb lock ends( which way locks the damn end on?)

Silca frame pumps are dependable and I end up loaning mine to poor souls with those short little pocket pumps (sounds obscene) on the Century rides

BOB FREITAS
                                                                     MILL VALLEY, CA USA